Sailing to Aegina Island
I have been in Athens since late last Sunday night to attend the TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) conference happening from October 23 to 25. I’m staying in an AirBnB apartment 10 minutes walk from the […]
Archive for category: Europe
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Málaga and Nerja
We arrived in Málaga early last Wednesday afternoon from Capileira, and started peeling off layers and switching back to more summery clothes to enjoy the 25C sunny weather of the coast! Making the most of […]
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Capileira – a village in the clouds
Last Sunday we rode the bus from Granada to Capileira, a small town of 600 in the Alpujarras mountains. It rained the whole two hours and a half, as the bus negotiated increasingly tighter curves […]
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Seduced by Granada
A three hour bus ride last Thursday (October 9) brought us to Granada, home of the world-famous Alhambra. The Alhambra is to Spain what the Taj Mahal is to India. With its location at 738 […]
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Two days in Sevilla
A bad start Our stay in Sevilla started on the wrong foot. First we discovered that the AirBnB apartment “with WiFi” that we had booked had no WiFi. This is bad for most travellers, but […]
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Cadiz – seaside Andalucia
My friend and I finally arrived in Cadiz Thursday night after flying overnight from Montreal to Malaga (via Paris) and taking a 4-hour bus trip to Cadiz. Although we were originally scheduled to spend our […]
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Discovering Ghent
My last day in Europe was spent in Ghent, an easy day trip from Brussels (50 minutes by train). With 250,000 people, Ghent is the second largest city in Belgium by population, but doesn’t feature […]
